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      Bluebeard

      R Released Sep 1, 1972 2 hr. 5 min. Horror List
      40% 10 Reviews Tomatometer 38% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score A World War I German ace (Richard Burton) tells his seventh bride (Joey Heatherton) why his castle has a room full of frozen ex-wives. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member If you like looking at gorgeous semi-clad women and ignoring dumb scripts, this movie is for you. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Deliberately and elegantly kitsch... a cult--A Eurosleaze Classic!! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review bill t Amusong movie here, made interesting because of Richard Burton and Joey Hetherington yapping at each other about how Burton is such a dick and schmuck at the same time. There's also numerous cameos from a gaggle of starlets (including Raquel Welch) who play Burton's past wives who he has bumped off for one reason or another. It's all a giant female power morality message, or something. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Most of the women are topless in the movie, so you can't beat the scenery. The Nazi symbol looks a little off, though, and I thought the production of the movie was a bit off. The story is based on a French short story from the late 17th century, with the situation updated for the 20th century. It has very little to do with the Kurt Vonnegut novel, which was written about 15 years after this movie was made. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member To quote Richard Burton's final line in this trashy wreck of a film, "It's absurd and ridiculous." And that pretty much sums up this film that can't decide if it's set in Germany after WWI with this Nazi-like military (they aren't really swastikas but awfully damn close) or set in the 60s as the polyester contemporary fashions seem to indicate. Lots of women get killed (and quite a few real animals in a hunting sequence) and most of them show off their breasts as a distraction. Burton's accent goes from Welsh to German to some odd mix and Joey Heatherton proves once and for all that she couldn't deliver a line of sincere dialog to save her soul (or in this case her life.) Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member One of my favorite Richard Burton films! Very imaginative deaths..:) Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Critics Reviews

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      Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times There is no longer any novelty in watching the sad disintegration of Richard Burton's acting career. Rated: 2/4 Oct 23, 2004 Full Review Ed Gonzalez Apollo Guide The film's gratuitous exploration of female flesh is only exceeded by the way Dmytryk manages to sexualize a nun who becomes Bluebeard's future wife. Rated: 30/100 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Despite the lineup of flesh and international sex symbols, the process proves overlong and borderline boring, unable to muster suspense to supplement the eye candy. Rated: 3/10 Aug 27, 2020 Full Review Robert Sullivan Los Angeles Free Press Call it refreshing without filling, bubblegum for the mind, with a little horror, nudity, and Burton theatrics thrown in for fun. Jan 6, 2020 Full Review Maureen Koch Los Angeles Free Press As the latest chapter in the Decline and Fall of Richard Burton's career, Bluebeard may be considered the rock-bottom of a long and agonizing slide. Jan 6, 2020 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews It's a compromised film that tends to offend everyone but the Nazis. Rated: C Sep 7, 2006 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A World War I German ace (Richard Burton) tells his seventh bride (Joey Heatherton) why his castle has a room full of frozen ex-wives.
      Director
      Edward Dmytryk, Luciano Sacripanti
      Executive Producer
      Ilya Salkind
      Screenwriter
      Ennio De Concini, Edward Dmytryk, Maria Pia Fusco
      Distributor
      Anchor Bay Entertainment, Cinerama Releasing Corporation [us]
      Production Co
      Hungarofilm, Geiselgasteig Film, Gloria Films
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Sep 1, 1972, Wide
      Release Date (DVD)
      Nov 27, 2007
      Sound Mix
      Mono